Hacked Facebook Message Exchange

Scammer: I was just wondering if you have heard about the empowerment program in conjunction with Facebook Active user Compensation bonus ,the program is to help people and maintain good standard of living of all the entire community,have you gotten any bonus money from David Mott.

Me: I had not heard of this. Tell me more.

Scammer: The promotion was made to some facebook user in other to benefit from them its a randomly picked of profile on facebook and get $150,000.00 did you get yours from them ???

Me: Can we talk on the phone? I’d like details, but this is the first I’ve heard.

Scammer: i thought you have receive your Money,because i saw your name on the winners list when the ups came to my door step to deliver my $150,000,00 cash to me in person
my phone fell into water last night and i have already order a new phone but they haven;t came to deliver it to me yet

At this point, I’ve decided to call the Facebook user/owner of this account and let her know that somebody is using her account to exchange messages with me. Seems this was already known and I was simply the next person to find out about it.

So, what do you do when your Fb account gets hacked? Obviously, you would instantly change your password, but I think a logged in account will be useful until the user logs out. My recommendation, download your data from Fb, establish a new account under a different email address and delete the hacked account. This is an arduous process (I’ve done it for one of my clients), but worth the effort.

I’m not really sure why I wanted to share this with you, but if it helps anyone to be more careful with passwords, then some good comes of it.